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Good Luck! And let us know, Anny On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 11:37 AM, Roger Day <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > Yes, this year I will make it to Rome. > > I have a course on learning italian on my bookshelf. I think I'll give > it another go. > > Roger > > On 6/24/08, Anny Ballardini <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > > Rome is just unbelievable, if you have never been there you cannot > imagine > > what it is. I am not drawing any water to any of my mills, as a matter of > > fact you all know that I share very little with Italy and criticize it as > > much as I can. But when I was some years ago in Rome for over a week with > my > > students, I was sort of mesmerized, especially when I had to visit the > > Vatican. Just stunned. > > Do try to get down there, Roger. I know that if you are able to find a > room > > by a convent (see the Orsoline nuns, or others), the price is quite > > convenient. > > > > > > > > On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 8:31 AM, Roger Day <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > > > > > I want to go to Rome ... all that art. > > > > > > Roger > > > > > > On Sat, Jun 21, 2008 at 4:11 PM, Douglas Barbour > > > <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > > > > Oh yes, very, Anny. > > > > > > > > Loved Florence even more than Rome, but maybe the shops, as well as > all > > > the > > > > museums helped <g>. > > > > > > > > As for poetry, too awed to even start, but I liked the concept that > > > places > > > > like Rome, let alone little Cortona, are themselves architectural > > > > palimpsests, all kinds of history peeking through... > > > > > > > > And boy did we walk a lot, eyes wide at all we could see... > > > > > > > > (Hey, dont get me started...) > > > > > > > > Doug > > > > On 20-Jun-08, at 8:56 PM, Anny Ballardini wrote: > > > > > > > >> You did travel through then, congratulations. It sounds a memorable > > > trip! > > > > > > > > Douglas Barbour > > > > [log in to unmask] > > > > > > > > http://www.ualberta.ca/~dbarbour/ > > > > > > > > Latest books: > > > > Continuations (with Sheila E Murphy) > > > > http://www.uap.ualberta.ca/UAP.asp?LID=41&bookID=664 > > > > Wednesdays' > > > > > > > > http://abovegroundpress.blogspot.com/2008/03/new-from-aboveground-press_10.html > > > > > > > > A nation that expects to be ignorant and free, and in a state of > > > > civilization, expects what never was and never will be. -- > > > > Thomas Jefferson > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > My Stuff: http://www.badstep.net/ > > > "I began to warm and chill > > > to objects and their fields" > > > Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > Anny Ballardini > > http://annyballardini.blogspot.com/ > > http://www.fieralingue.it/modules.php?name=poetshome > > http://www.moriapoetry.com/ebooks.html > > I Tell You: One must still have chaos in one to give birth to a dancing > > star! > > > > > -- > My Stuff: http://www.badstep.net/ > "I began to warm and chill > to objects and their fields" > Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds > -- Anny Ballardini http://annyballardini.blogspot.com/ http://www.fieralingue.it/modules.php?name=poetshome http://www.moriapoetry.com/ebooks.html I Tell You: One must still have chaos in one to give birth to a dancing star!